NeyChip: Discover this new York-area group

There's a new historical group in town - NeyChip, it is. That's short for North Eastern York County History In Preservation.

Digital-savvy and history minded Charles Stambaugh has set up NeyChip.com to preserve that area's artifacts and stories in electronic form.

He's using the successful Mount Wolf Centennial in 2010 as a foundation and is looking for people who are interested preserving the history of East Manchester Township, Manchester Borough, York Haven Borough and Conewago Township.

The big picture goal is to find a site to exhibit artifacts from Northeastern York County.

In a recent email, he provided provided a thought originally put forth in 2014:

“Without preservation of local snapshots, stories, events, art, sports, buildings, our memories, our enjoyments, and our actions along with the things we made and used, the very neighborhood where we lived will soon forget who we were, what we did, what we believed in and what our cultural was but worst of all, if we ever existed.”

Interesting project and digital presentation. It's amazing what a small group can do in putting together a much-visited heritage website.

Bill Kerr, ninth grade history teacher at Susquehannock High School, has 80 students enrolled in an advanced placement class. They will visit Glen Rock's and New Freedom's museums on Jan. 25.

"I understand the students will be put in groups of 3-4 kids, each group will pick a topic related either to Glen Rock or New Freedom and then they must research the topic, do an interview, prepare a paper and notecards, and prepare a website for their topic," Hufnagel wrote.

Love this project. Notice it has a digital component, too. That a real link to young people.

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Traveling north on I-83, you can see three giraffes, with red Holiday bows, just before the Market street exit at York Art Association.

They were made by David Taylor, North Carolina artist, and now are part of "Susan's Garden," which will be dedicated on April 10. More to come on this, but add another winsome garden to the many around York County.

Some of these gardens have incorporated public art, as you can see at York Art.

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These images of pleasant, green gardens dotting York County might make you smile. Twin dawn redwoods rise above the gardens at the Unitarian Universalist congregation on South George Street, York.
Jim McClure, York Daily Record

Still at the Unitarian Unversalist gardens. The canopy of this weeping beech tree is dense enough to keep you dry if you're caught in the rain. The gardens - like the congregation's building - grew from the Springdale estate that covered these grounds.
Paul Kuehnel - York Daily Record